Writers Against Racism: Grades 9-12 Reading List

Her first picture book, Bird, won the Honor Award in Lee & Low Books’ New Voices Contest; it was named Best of 2008 by Kirkus Reviews, a 2009 ALA Notable Children’s Book, and Bird won the Paterson Prize for Books for Young Readers.

My most recent young adult novel, Freefall (Greenwillow/HarperCollins), gives an inside view of growing up in Israel with all the universal struggles experienced in adolescence, love, family, and friendships, set within the context of being a teen in Israel and the unique issues faced here.